dye

1. (transitive) To colour with dye, or as if with dye.Examples: "You look different. Have you had your hair dyed?"; "But tho’ Black cannot be Dyed to the laſt perfection either in Wool or Hair without Woad, the Hatters have quite left off their accuſtomed uſe of it in the Dying of Hatts, and believe at the ſame time, that too ſtrong a Black makes the Hairs or Nap fall off, which is very neceſſary for the ſale and beauty of the Hatts, though this rather proceeds from the hand of the Workman that dreſſes them than in Dying them, or the Hairs not being ſufficiently fulled, or ſtrongly enough united to the felt; […]"; "The woollen goods have first a blue ground from the woad vat, light or full according to the pattern, and then they have a preparation afterward of alum and tartar, weak or strong, according to the lightness or fulness of the pattern; and afterwards are dyed in weld liquor to receive the yellow part of the dye. Many of these shades are more readily done by dying the wool first yellow with old fustic, with preparation of alum and tartar, and using the chemic blue vat, made with oil of vitriol and indigo."Synonyms: tint, stain, shade, streaktransitive